Clubhouse App Case- Mumbai Police arrest three for hate speech and obscene discussion of selling women body parts, rape

New Delhi, January 24

The Mumbai Police arrested three persons for allegedly being part of an audio chat room on Clubhouse application, where derogatory comments were made against women. 

The accused were identified as Akash Suyal, Yashkumar Parashar, and Jaishnav Kakkad who were arrested from Haryana. 

The cybercrime cell of Mumbai police that is investigating the case said that Suyal was the moderator of the chat room created by him and Kakkad on January 16 and 19. The discussions on the chat room included auctioning of women’s body parts and remarks about raping women. 

The cybercrime cell has been probing more to get information on other participants in that chat room where this discussion took place

The cyber cell unit of the Bandra Kurla Complex had filed a complaint under sections, including 153 (a) promoting enmity between two groups, 295 (a) (deliberate acts to outrage religious feelings), 354 (a) (sexual harassment) (d) (stalking), 500 (defamation) and 509 (insulting modesty of a woman) of the IPC as well as the IT Act.